Amongst the other classifications that the race awarded, Saronni won thepoints classification,Lucien Van Impe of Metauro Mobili won themountains classification, and Vivi-Benotto'sFranco Chioccioli completed the Giro as the best neo-professional in the general classification, finishing sixteenth overall. Renault-Elf finishing as the winners of theteam classification, ranking each of the twenty teams contesting the race by lowest cumulative time. The team points classification was won by Zor-Gemeaz Cusin.
A total of eighteen teams were invited to participate in the 1983 Giro d'Italia.[5] The presentation of the teams – where each team's roster and manager are introduced in front the media and local dignitaries – took place at thePiazza della Loggia inBrescia on 10 May and was televised in Italy on Network 1.[6] The starting riders came from a total of 16 different countries; Italy (95), Belgium (22), and Spain (11) all had more than 10 riders.[7] Each team sent a squad of nine riders, which meant that the race started with a peloton of 162 cyclists.[6][8]<
Of those starting, 46 were riding the Giro d'Italia for the first time.[9] The average age of riders was 26.42 years,[10] ranging from 21–year–old Giuliano Pavanello (Mareno-Wilier Triestina) to 37–year–oldWladimiro Panizza (Atala-Campagnolo).[11] The team with the youngest average rider age was Mareno-Wilier Triestina (24), while the oldest wasInoxpran-Lumenflon (28).[12] From the riders that began this edition, 140 made it to the finish inUdine.[1][8]
Colli di San Fermo hosted the end of the 91 km (57 mi) seventeenth stage.
The route for the 1983 edition of the Giro d'Italia was revealed to the public by head organizer Vincenzo Torriani on 19 February 1983.[13][14][15] Covering a total of 3,922 km (2,437 mi), it included four time trials (threeindividual and one forteams), and fifteen stages with categorized climbs that awardedmountains classification points.[8][15] Seven of these fifteen stages had summit finishes: stage 4, toTodi; stage 6, toCampitello Matese; stage 9, toMontefiascone; stage 10, toBibbiena; stage 15, toOrta San Giulio; stage 17, toColli di San Fermo; and stage 19, toSelva di Val Gardena.[14] The organizers chose to include two rest days. When compared to theprevious year's race, the race was 88.5 km (55 mi) shorter and contained one more time trial. In addition, this race contained one more set of split stages.
ThePordoi Pass was theCima Coppi for the 1983 running of the Giro d'Italia.
Four different jerseys were worn during the 1983 Giro d'Italia. The leader of thegeneral classification – calculated by adding the stage finish times of each rider, and allowing time bonuses for the first four finishers on mass-start stages[16] – wore a pink jersey. This classification is the most important of the race, and its winner is considered as the winner of the Giro.[17]
For thepoints classification, which awarded a purple (orcyclamen) jersey to its leader, cyclists were given points for finishing a stage in the top 15, no additional points were given in intermediate sprints.[18]
The green jersey was awarded to themountains classification leader. In this ranking, points were won by reaching the summit of a climb ahead of other cyclists. Each climb was ranked as either first, second or third category, with more points available for higher category climbs. TheCima Coppi, the race's highest point of elevation, awarded more points than the other first category climbs.[17] TheCima Coppi for this Giro was thePordoi Pass. The first rider to cross the Pordoi Pass was Spanish riderMarino Lejarreta.
The white jersey was worn by the leader ofyoung rider classification, a ranking decided the same way as the general classification, but considering only neo-professional cyclists (in their first three years of professional racing).[17]
Although no jersey was awarded, there was also one classification for the teams, in which the stage finish times of the best three cyclists per team were added; the leading team was the one with the lowest total time.[17]
There were a few minor classifications. For example thePremio dell'Agonismo, an intermediate sprints classification, and the Fiat Uno classification (named after theFiat Uno introduced in that year), where points were given to the riders who reached the final kilometer first.[19]
The rows in the following table correspond to the jerseys awarded after that stage was run.
^ab"Saronni, La Vida En Rosa" [Saronni, the Life in Rose](PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 6 June 1983. p. 32.Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved27 May 2012.
^ab"Los Parincipales Participantes" [The Principal Participants](PDF) (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo. 12 May 1983. p. 24.Archived(PDF) from the original on 1 February 2015. Retrieved27 May 2012.
^abGian Paolo Ormezzano (11 May 1983)."Oggi la passerella a Brescia" [Today the catwalk in Brescia](PDF).La Stampa (in Italian). Editrice La Stampa. p. 21. Retrieved27 May 2012.
^"Un Giro <<morbido>> fatto per Saronni" [A Tour <<soft>> done for Saronni](PDF).La Stampa (in Italian). Editrice La Stampa. 20 February 1983. p. 21. Retrieved27 May 2012.
^abc"Etapa <<reina>> a dos dias del final" [Queen Stage two days from the end](PDF).El Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). El Mundo Deportivo S.A. 20 February 1983. p. 36.Archived(PDF) from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved27 May 2012.
Guido Bontempi (ITA)
Eduardo Chozas (ESP)
Lucien Van Impe (BEL)
Alf Segersäll (SWE)
Gregor Braun (FRG)
Stefan Mutter (SUI)
Harald Maier (AUT)
Czesław Lang (POL)
